These 16mm films were timeless in their information and methodology so we thought to preserve them on video. We sent them to a preservation house in Burbank, CA to be cleaned and restored, then sent to Hollywood, CA for digital re-mastering to video. The results are a smooth and clean method of instruction that we just didn't want to replace with our own efforts. We hope that you will enjoy and benefit form the information on them as much as we have. They are truly inexpensive treasures!
Aircraft Structural Tubing Video Set (3 DVDs)
Aluminum Welding Methods (ALCOA)
Complete Piper J-3 Cub Training Series
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Eyes of Flight HTV-0018 $25.00 Rohm & Haas, 33 min., color, 1957 If you want to learn how to handle, cut, drill, form and care for Plexiglas, then this is the film! Many experienced craftsmen have told me how much they enjoyed this film. Special drills, saw speeds, solvents and polishing techniques are shown, along with the causes of "crazing". Includes footage from Bell showing how canopies are blown. Warbird footage! Great info!
Repairing Structural Tubing
Note: You may purchase this video as part of the 3-DVD set, Aircraft Structural Tubing Video Set (3 DVDs). This set includes the 2-DVD series, 4130 Chromemoly Airframe Construction.
Sheet Metal Repairs to the P38 Lightning
View RealPlayer sample of the P38 Lightning video Note: Due to internet and RealPlayer limitations, the actual video is much clearer and smoother than the RealPlayer sample we offer here.
Closeout VHS - while it lasts Preflight Inspection & Factory Construction of the J3 Cub
THIS VHS TAPE includes 2 of the 4 films that are included on the Complete Piper J-3 Cub Training Series DVD. (VHS were originally sold separately due to length. All films now combined on DVD).
"The Metal Aircraft Construction Methods video was especially interesting since it is very likely that my dad and an uncle worked at that plant at the time of the filming. They worked in sheet metal; my dad did flatwork and my uncle was an expert in compound forming. I'm guessing the film was made in the summer of 1942, based on the type of plane built (P-39D) and the work force still showing lots of young males. By summer 1943 induction was in full gear and women would have made up a large percentage of the employees.
The Bell plant was located in Wheatfield, N.Y. which is about 10 miles from Niagra Falls. It built P-39s and later in the war, the P-63. The vast majority of its production ended up in Russia. After the war, helicopters went into mass production with the Bell Model 47. Wheatfield was also the experimental facility that produced the X-1, X-1A, and X-2.
Helicopter production eventually shifted to Fort Worth, TX, where my dad transferred in 1950. He went on to a career in production supervision, retiring in 1984. My uncle stayed in Buffalo, eventually ending in rocket motor assembly in Bell." –Dr. Maj
